Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-04
A COAT OF ARMS.
THE EASE WITH WHICH ANY PAR
VENU CAN SECURE ONE.

| THE EASE WITH WHICH ANY PAX
vENU CAN SECURE ONE.
How the Duke OF Sutherland Was As
tonished-His Coat Of Arms Emblazoned
on an American Citizens Carriage.
Hunting a Pedigree.
Up to within few days ago there was an
Englishman in New York city who spoke his
native tongue in all its formidable atrocity.
He is the Duke OF Sutherland, who has done
the States many times, but he appeared for
the first time during this last visit in private
ball and drawing room. Hitherto he had
preserved his insular prejudice against the
new rich Americans But last spring, at the
inaugural ceremonies of the Panama canal,
be made the acquaintance Of our former min
ister to France, Mr.. Bigelow, who was at
Colon at the time IS the representative of the
New York chamber of commerce. This ac-
guaintance induced him to break through his
former habit, and in his last stay in New
York he consented to be present at the we'd
ding of Mr.. Bigelow's youngest daughter and
Charles Stuart Dodge at st. Georges church
In Stuyvesant square. It was his former re-
him to imagine that the costume which had
served him as a similar occasion in the west,
when q cowboy espoused q ranchera, would
do here likewise, and be appeared at the Bige-
low wedding attired in deer stalking hat,
tweed suit, and heavy hunting brogans-
This was forgiven q duke, however, on the
score Of eccentricity. and, the ice once broken,
distinguished social honors poured in upon
L. - IL -
the ducal coronet was witnessed at the recep-
lion of Mrs. Lord, when the wild walls
Of the pibrocb, perpetuated by Mrs Lords
private piper, hailed his grace Of Sutherland
rs he entered. 1t was then he uttered a good
old fashioned English word, beginning and
ending with the letter d, followed by the
name which we are forbidden by the bible to
apply to our brother.
THE LAST STRAW
This beats my time" said the Duke Of
Sutherland II shall take to the yacht to-
morrow. Why, this afternoon as passed
shop on Fifth avenue what should l see
standing in front but my own carriage-yes,
by CAD! saw carriage with my own coro-
net upon it."
The duke ought TO have demanded an ex-
PLANTATION Of the owner; but as he did not we
will furnish him with one The coat of arms
emblazoned on the family carriage Of SIM
pie American citizen is a harmless exhibition
Of the proprietor's vanity and the carriage
makers complaisance. The citizen, however,
is not wholly to blame. Fortune had smiled
upon him, and he had carriage built. Moth
ing to condemn in that He, like q sensible
man, had intended to have his cipher on the
panels, but the women folks" were more
ambitious, and never rested until in a mo-
ment Of weakness he consented to emblason
the doors of his coach with coat Of arms
Now the question arises: How to get one.
His ancestors and himself have struggled
along for good many years without feeling
any special need for armorial bearings This
contentment or neglect seems to have closed
the way now to coronets, and, besides, he
lives in the United States, where it is consid-
cred all honor not to be crowned. If he lived
in Brazil he would endow hospital, and the
emperor would reward him with knighthood
and coat of arms of great complexity. II
he lived in England he could get pedigree
and coat of arms from the College of Her
aids without doing anything so expensive as
found a hospital. Living in neither of these
convenient countries, but in the United
i
there is just one thing to be done-he must
steal them.
HUNTING A PEDIGREE.
When lie has made up his mind to it, this is
as easy as stealing lead pipe from a junk
shop. He goes TO the carriage manufacturer
and takes him into his confidence. That
worthy is not surprised-bless you, no. This
isn'i the first nor the thousand and first time
he has acted for the college of heraldry He
brings out his library, which consists of
"Burke's Peerage and Baronetage" and
"Burke's General Armory'-Burke is the in
dispensable friend Of Stakeholder and Kim
ball and their cljents-he brings out his !
library and in the seclusion of the carriage |
builders private Office the respectable citizen
endeevors to recollect something about the |
ancestors o. his family. Any little incident |
is enough, and it is astonishing how obedjent |
becomes on such occasions.
Now there's "a coat of arms that I'm |
familiar with says the customer, land l |
don't know where | have seen it unless it be- |
longs to our branch of the family" So our
branch of the family appear soon in their
true colors. But many people are not so
easily satisfied. When they have started in
search of quarterings and notices, they be-
come very particular, Say, for instance, the
rich Mr. Jones wants a coat of arms The |
carriage man opens his heraldic record and
reads: zones, Arthur Adolphus Patrick
Dennis; first lord of Castletoddy, Castletoddy,
County Mayo. Ireland
NO no, says the honorable Jones Our
family are English by descent
A few more pages OF the peerage are turned
over until the name Of Jones appears again,
ibis time as an English peer, pretixed by five
Dr. six Christian fames, and with an addi-
.ional surname that the head of the English
aouse has been permitted to assume by royal
license This nobleman has on estate in
Devonshire
There we have it," cries the conscientious
ZONES Il have heard that my grandfather
anne from Devonshire."
In much the same way, undoubtedly, the
American citizen went to work searching the
archives of his family, with a result that
sdified the Duke of Sutherland by the sight of
lis own carriage, which he supposed to be
nugiy resting in the stables of Stafford house,
'ollins along Fifth avenue, emblazoned with
he arms of his family and likewise the sup
,orters, which can only be used by peer Of
he realm, the whole surmounte.l with ducal
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